Most of what you
have learned about diet and health has come from the Public Education System.
Most of what your Mom and I have learned has come from the same source. Thanks again
to computers and the internet much more information (and misinformation) is now
available. Starting in 2005, due to the serious illness I experienced, I began
paying more attention to what I ate and searching for answers to questions
about diet and health.
1. Why have so many diseases
become prevalent in the USA which do not affect a high % of the population in
many other parts of the world?
These diseases include but are not limited to heart failure, arterial
sclerosis, cancer……

2.
Why do these diseases continue to affect a higher % of the USA population each
generation?

3.
What is the connection between mental health and physical health?

4.
What and how should we be eating?

I began the search for answers to
these questions and learned just enough to barely balance my diet and get by
while providing an income (dealing with a new job), moving to a new residence,
and building a new office, shop and garage. Due to the economic climate and
timing, these steps were necessary for our family to continue and avoid severe
socio-economic results. These tasks are in acceptable condition and nearing
completion. My focus is returning to answering these questions.

There are many theories and a lot of scientific studies available today
providing answers to the questions above. Again, I would never teach you
something I did not know to be
true. These letters on Diet and Health are based on personal experience and
proven methods. As with Religion, The truth about
diet and health is different for every person. The reason it varies so widely
is each person has different needs and capabilities. The mind, having infinite
variations in requirements and capabilities, and body, having physical and
mental requirements and capabilities, are relying on each other to produce a
person who is spiritually, mentally, and physically healthy. Since we live in
all three worlds simultaneously and
each can survive independently, the range of health status and needs in people
are infinite. Unlike the study of religion, we are currently active and in
control (or by choice not) of all three of our worlds. We are not looking at a
collective past to determine what physically happened and interpreting the
mental logic and putting the two together to obtain a predetermined spiritual
meaning. Instead, all three are simultaneously producing the results we see in
our lives every day. We cannot change one of the three variables in our life’s
equation without seeing a resulting change in us. Everything we feel,
everything we think, and everything we eat, do, or, is done to us revises our
life’s equation and changes us. Unlike examining past equations with the single
variables of physical events, mental or logical relationships, and adding them
up to determine spiritual content (three equations and three unknowns),
determining a person’s well being (wholeness) has only one equation and four
unknowns ( Physical, Mental, Spiritual, and Wholeness).
All past attempts to provide guidance to a healthy life have addressed only one
and possibly two of the variables to equate them to health or wholeness (the
fourth variable). These usually result in answers short of the target and
produce only temporary effects. An example of this is treating an irritated
bowel (severe IBS) with antibiotics. The
results will eliminate the inflammation and accompanying elimination problems.
But, they will return soon if the diet is not changed. Changing these two
physical conditions will abate the immediate IBS but the underlying mental and
spiritual stresses which were the original source of the physical result will
find another physical outlet to let you know they are still present. Although
one physical symptom is cured another physical symptom will take its place and
the net physical wholeness of the person has not changed. Exceptions such as
physical accidents producing a broken bone require only physical repair to
return to physical wholeness. A notable exception to previous treatment
theories and guides to health is the work and guidance provided by Edgar Cayce. Treatments by Edgar Cayce and his views on
health generally encompassed the physical mental and spiritual wholeness of
an individual.

The previous
letters I have written began in my early twenties and were not committed to
this format until this year. In the process of assembling the concepts in a
presentable format a clearer understanding of the subject began to form. I
began the search for the answers to the questions above about four years ago.
The reason was purely a selfish desire to survive. I am restarting my research
on this subject and will keep you informed of only results I know to be true. I
have to admit the research effort is partially for my benefit. But the main
interest and motivation is to help you Toby to improve your quality of life.
Even Cayce did not provide a cure for Parkinsons Disease
but provided significant improvement in many cases. Starting with what we know
now and applying it in our every-day lives should provide significant
improvement in our physical, mental and spiritual health. By documenting our
steps and results, others may be able to use them as a guide in their own
lives. After struggling with this subject for four years I have realized the
largest obstacle to establishing a healthy life is time. Time, to research
through the many theories and locate resources of reliable information and
supplies, is normally not available after spending 12-14 hours a day making a
living (including preparation, travel and cleanup). Providing a self-guiding
simple plan for wholeness and health is a worthy goal for us.

Before trying to
cure ourselves or reorganizing our lives and eating habits we should establish
several things:

1.What is wholeness? This concept will
provide the target or goal. We can begin with the end in mind.

Answering these questions will provide
a plan for obtaining and maintaining good health. If we put this plan into
practice and document the results, an approach for The Charles Project will
become apparent.